My 9/12 Project

Alright, so today I took it upon myself to do a little project of my own. I went to a pro-health care anti-war protest, and a Tea Party.

First, the anti-war pro-health care rally covered several topics with its signs and songs:

Respect our Constitution - Do not torture people or spy on our citizens.

Leave Afghanistan - I was talking to a Vietnam veteran who was against the war in Afghanistan who said we should just leave Afghanistan like we left Vietnam.
Sir, 2 million people were slaughtered by the North Vietnamese when we left Vietnam. I hope you do not wish this fate upon the Iraqi people.

Fund health care, affordable housing, instead of the military in order to give us real security - Common sense alert. Without the military a few guys, notably the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, we would be royally screwed. That, and any nation that would like a slice of our country would have not only an open border to invade across, but no resistance once they did. If they wish for money for health care and the military, with waste overall removed, they sound very similar to the Tea Party protest.

At the Tea Party, the core themes were:

Spend less overall to tax less overall - We can buy our own cars, we don't need a government stimulus check given to us from our own taxes to pay for it, just for you to not take it from us in taxes in the first place.

Respect our Constitution - Do not spy on our citizens, do not expand government beyond its original purpose, and have every person in the administration face a congressional hearing to be appointed.

This was the core of the Tea Party.

You see, the liberal Americans and conservative Americans are divided by where government's role in charity is. Liberals want the government to tell us to feed those in need and control the mechanisms through which that happens. Conservatives believe it is our responsibility as neighbors, Americans, and believers in God to feed those in need and to do so as individuals, friends, and families, not government workers.